2019 WASTECON

Rebecca Ryan
Futurist and Economist
NEXT Generation Consulting


Rebecca Ryan is the Resident Futurist at the Alliance for Innovation, a Senior Advisor at the Governing Institute, a faculty member at the Institute for Zen Leadership, the founder of Futurist Camp, the inventor of Futures Labs, and the owner of NEXT Generation Consulting, Inc. She is the author of The Next Big Things: The Future of Local Government (2015); ReGENERATION: A Manifesto for America’s Future Leaders (2013); and Live First, Work Second: Getting Inside the Head of the Next Generation (2007). Her TEDx talk “Spring is Coming” was featured at the prestigious TEDxBeaconStreet in 2015. Ms. Ryan has a graduate certificate in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston. She also has bachelor degrees in Art in Economics from Drake University, and Arts in International Relations from Drake University Kozgaz University in Budapest, Hungary.

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